[DRAFT] Attic board report, November 2013

[Gianugo Rabellino <gi...@rabellino.it>]

Note that this is not the usual short report - more than ever your feedback is most welcome. Please feel free to suggest edits - I would like to send in the next 58 hours or so.


Thanks!


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The Attic is currently experiencing a lack of volunteer time. We have two projects in the pipeline (stdcxx and ESME) who’s archival process looks stuck – and actually even never started for stdcxx. I guess it’s time for the Attic PMC to do an open enrollment and see if we can secure more helping hands.

 

On a somewhat unrelated note, I think the board should actively be aware of the following tidbits, which don’t apply directly to the Attic but may well have impact one way or another:


1. Two projects (XMLBeans and DDLUtils) have theoretically moved to the Attic. However, both archival processes have been stopped as the community decided to try and revive them. Work hasn't been started on the Attic side, waiting to see what happens. XML beans is currently beginning an incubation process.

2. Axis is expected to start moving inactive projects to the Attic. No concrete follow-up yet as of today and we hope that when they do, they come with volunteers ready to help out.

3. A long thread on dev@click.a.o and board@ happened in September, moving quickly from retirement of Click into a general discussion on creating a new category of "finished" projects with no real community but still not attic-worthy. I assume there is no action for the Attic at this point in time, but the thread may well be revived in the near future.

 


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Re: [DRAFT] Attic board report, November 2013

[Henri Yandell <he...@yandell.org>]

+1, looks good.

Having come through (I hope) some crappy health, I remain full of good
intentions (ie: wishy washy zero guarantee) to do Attic things.

Hen


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Gianugo Rabellino <gi...@rabellino.it>wrote:

> Note that this is not the usual short report - more than ever your
> feedback is most welcome. Please feel free to suggest edits - I would like
> to send in the next 58 hours or so.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> =======================
>
>
>
>
>
>
> The Attic is currently experiencing a lack of volunteer time. We have two
> projects in the pipeline (stdcxx and ESME) who’s archival process looks
> stuck – and actually even never started for stdcxx. I guess it’s time for
> the Attic PMC to do an open enrollment and see if we can secure more
> helping hands.
>
>
>
> On a somewhat unrelated note, I think the board should actively be aware
> of the following tidbits, which don’t apply directly to the Attic but may
> well have impact one way or another:
>
>
> 1. Two projects (XMLBeans and DDLUtils) have theoretically moved to the
> Attic. However, both archival processes have been stopped as the community
> decided to try and revive them. Work hasn't been started on the Attic side,
> waiting to see what happens. XML beans is currently beginning an incubation
> process.
>
> 2. Axis is expected to start moving inactive projects to the Attic. No
> concrete follow-up yet as of today and we hope that when they do, they come
> with volunteers ready to help out.
>
> 3. A long thread on dev@click.a.o and board@ happened in September,
> moving quickly from retirement of Click into a general discussion on
> creating a new category of "finished" projects with no real community but
> still not attic-worthy. I assume there is no action for the Attic at this
> point in time, but the thread may well be revived in the near future.
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Windows Mail